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Glyph for U+2126
Source: Noto Sans

U+2126 Ohm Sign

U+2126 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2100 to U+214F Letterlike Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega.

The glyph is a canonical version of the glyph Glyph for U+03A9 Greek Capital Letter Omega. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2126 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8486
UTF-8 E2 84 A6
UTF-16 21 26
UTF-32 00 00 21 26
URL-Quoted %E2%84%A6
HTML hex reference Ω
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ω
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A7 D9
LATEX \Omega
AGL: Latin-2 uni2126
AGL: Latin-3 uni2126
AGL: Latin-4 uni2126
AGL: Latin-5 uni2126
Adobe Glyph List Ohm
Adobe Glyph List Omega
digraph Om

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) OHM SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) OHM
Block (blk) Letterlike Symbols
General Category (gc) Uppercase Letter
Script (sc) Greek
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+03A9 Greek Capital Letter Omega
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
Uppercase (Upper) ✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2126 Ohm Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2126 Ohm Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2126 Ohm Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2126 Ohm Sign
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✔
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✔
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✔
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2126 Ohm Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) No
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2126 Ohm Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R